Quotes about Urgency

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always rip to do right.

Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same. S.H.

When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realise that there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life.

When the people of a congregation zealously hold convictions about time and space, the church will begin to change (and change fast)! There is a powerful grace that comes with the belief that this mortal life is terrifyingly brief and the life after death is gloriously infinite. This profound conviction moves the church to become a people of radical action, urgency, unction, and even risk.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.

Every moment and every situation challenges us to action and to obedience. We have literally no time to sit down and ask ourselves whether so-and-so is our neighbour or not. We must get into action and obey — we must behave like a neighbour to him.